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August 21, 2007

Executive Sumary on 9/11

The Executive Summary on 9/11, completed in June 2005 and kept classified until now, is a 19-page executive summary that finds extensive fault with the actions of senior CIA leaders and others beneath them. CIA watchdog: Agency officers did not effectively tackle al-Qaida before 9/11. (Citizen Times) I'm not sure this report tells us anything we didn't already know.

The report "does not document the many successes of the agency and it's officers at all levels" and does not "make recommendations related to systemic problems." It's good to keep these two statements in mind when reading the report.

"The agency and its officers did not discharge their responsibilities in a satisfactory manner," the CIA inspector general found.

"They did not always work effectively and cooperatively," the report stated.

Yet the review team led by Inspector General John Helgerson found neither a "single point of failure nor a silver bullet" that would have stopped the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.

In a statement, CIA Director Michael Hayden said the decision to release the report was not his choice or preference, but that he was making the report available as required by Congress in a law signed by President Bush earlier this month.

"I thought the release of this report would distract officers serving their country on the front lines of a global conflict," Hayden said. "It will, at a minimum, consume time and attention revisiting ground that is already well plowed."

Last week, the DHS’ Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a report (pdf) on the federal effort to coordinate and consolidate the various means of detecting a biological event, be it naturally occurring or man-made. The gist of the report? Given the money spent, we’re worse off than we were the first time President Bush made this a priority.

Few crimes have been as well researched by modern means and by professional investigators from both the government and by private industry than the crash events on 9/11. Yet some conspiracy believers are determined to believe lies! Lies that are not even logical where on one hand that government is supposed to be incompetent and on the other hand it is so skillful that it could contain a secret plot orchestrated and covered up by thousands of people involved at various levels of civil service and the private sector.

» Hurricane Dean and OTB from Rosemary's Thoughts
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Tracked on August 21, 2007 at 02:36 PM

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» AP: Young Whites Happier Than Minorities from CommonSenseAmerica
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Tracked on August 21, 2007 at 05:01 PM

» Being Illegal Not A Crime, Court Says from Pirate's Cove
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Tracked on August 21, 2007 at 05:24 PM

» Kahlil Gibran would turn over in his GravE from Woman Honor Thyself
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» The Rational Response Squad from Mark My Words
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Tracked on August 21, 2007 at 07:10 PM

» Clinton-Appointed CIA Chief Failed To Protect US from Rhymes With Right
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Tracked on August 21, 2007 at 09:50 PM

» Janeane Garofalo Joins the Cast of 24 from Blue Star Chronicles
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» ACLU & Anti-semitism from Rosemary's Thoughts
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Tracked on August 21, 2007 at 11:44 PM

» Catch UpPost from PA Pundits . . . "the relentless pursuit of common sense"
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» China v The Taliban from The Amboy Times
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» This Week's Linkfest from Inside the Northwest Territory
I was away yesterday.
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» Catch Up Post from "7.62mm Justice" ™
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Tracked on August 22, 2007 at 09:50 AM

» The Chaos Reaches Our Courts from CommonSenseAmerica
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Comments

Great article. I have to agree that it is only a distraction for the dems to have more 'investigations' to satisfy the nuts over at moveon.org. Oh well. We all know that tenet should have been canned...

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